@cheyenneelee and @briandrassy went out for pork but came back with venison - nice shooting, Cheyenne! ・・・
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@cheyenneelee with the killshot 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 we were going for hogs but got lucky and found this guy 😆🙌🏻 #killshotlife#floridabuck#saltlifegirls @realsaltlife @sheoutdoor @killshotlife

What a week! My oldest son Landon didn’t have much luck in the draw here in NM. Lucky for him we were able to take advantage of a youth encouragement cow elk tag. Opening morning was an early and cold one but you could not tell by the excitement on this kids face. He was up and ready to go in minutes. As we drove down the road Landon continued to ask me and his uncle Tommy how much farther and how much longer until he was allowed to hunt. A little over an hour later the sun came up and we started to glass some areas that we’ve seen some elk in the recent past. To our surprise we were turning up zero elk in any of these places. We decided to keep moving to a place that I had taken a rifle elk hunter in early October. Around 9:15 I finally spotted an elk in the tree line. Tommy quickly let us know it was a spike. Seconds later the woods came alive! What would have to be roughly 100 elk started moving through the trees. We set Landon up on the tripod and started to look for a cow in an opening. When I looked down at Landon I noticed he was shaking with excitement. I laughed to myself and instructed him to find them in his scope and see if he could find a cow in an opening. I knew we would not be shooting until he could calm down a bit so I kept the bullets in my pocket. With the elk moving through the trees as quickly as they were we chose to make our way back to the truck and hit a two track that might put us in front of the herd. Not ten minutes into our drive we spotted four cows feeding slowly. We jumped out and grabbed our gear and moved to a place we thought we would be in front of them. After several attempts and back an forth setups of prone and tripod the cows finally moved up a hill and into an opening. I tried several times to stop them until a cow finally stopped in a clearing at 273 yards. Landon was already watching her on the tripod and I gave him the ok to shoot. The safety came off and he squeezed one round off. The cow dropped in its tracks! Our whispers turned to high fives and atta boys! I could not have been any happier!

Opening morning we walked in to an area we had scouted a couple days prior. First scout day we saw 12 bucks and the second scouting trip we saw 14. Based of those results we were convinced this would be a good starting place for the youth opener. The three of us glassed from sunrise to 1:30 in the afternoon and were unable turn up a single deer. The temps were a bit warmer than they were on scouting days so we decided to hit the road and head to a deep canyon an hour away. Despite having sun directly in our face we were able to find deer within minutes. We picked up three groups of does and then finally Glen glassed up a big bodied deer with his head in a tree. We were pretty sure right away that it was a mature buck. Eventually this buck and one more would feed out into an opening. We got setup and waited for the buck to turn broadside. The buck finally stopped broadside and in an opening and I gave Will the ok to shoot. I looked down and saw that he was shaking I like a leaf and told him to put the rifle back on safe until he calmed down a bit. He took a few deep breathes and was ready to shoot shortly after. The buck moved back into an opening and turned right and paused. It seemed like minutes went by before the silence was broke. The buck was hit perfectly. He lunged forward and crashed under a large tree just out of our sight. After a short wait we packed across the canyon to Will’s buck to take some picture. Awesome job guys!

We started out the morning with two shooter bucks well within range but they moved over the ridge before we could get set up. We then moved up the ridge and glassed for the better part of the day. By noon we had seen eleven different bucks but most were on the move and never stopped in a good place to shoot. We moved further down the ridge and continued picking the hills apart with the glass. Around 4:30 we found three bucks we had seen earlier in the day bedded about 550 yards from us. Once this buck stood up Glen had decided he would take a shot if one presented itself. We waited 15 minutes or so before Glen was able to take a shot at 533 yards. The buck would fall dead in his tracks. Once the buck was down Glen let me know that this was his first buck ever. Not only that but I can’t think of a day I’ve seen twelve bucks from one ridge!!

A picture perfect #killshot by @hammerhead_kev with a... is that a Hammerhead? Who’d have thunk. 😎🤷🏻‍♂️
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“Pet My Uku” Can’t believe I never posted this famous Stone Shot on Instagram before. I guess it’s because IG only recently allowed us to post videos longer than 15 seconds. Speared with my favorite gun of all time the Original HammerHead Speargun from which thousands of HammerHead Spearguns have evolved from. #HammerHeadSpearguns#spearo

Pronghorn Tuesday! Is that a thing? @crosscountryguide put Chris on this great specimen - thanks for the tag! 😎🤙
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Here’s a few pics and short video of Chris’s pronghorn. Nice shot buddy! #pronghorn#huntingislife